I recently bought a new fancy-for-me camera and am slowly learning all the neat things it can do! When I met Suzanne at the Tourism Vancouver Expo and heard about her phototours I knew I had to check it out. So earlier this month, I had the wonderful opportunity to experience the evening photowalk tour through Gastown (http://www.vancouverphotowalks.ca/).
We started out at Canada Place with a brief introduction to camera basics and got some really nice shots of North Vancouver from the water ad Canada Place with 'twinkling star' effect at just the perfect time of dusk. Right away, I learned how to use my manual settings at night! This alone was worth going on the tour but it was just the beginning.
While it started to sprinkle during the first hour we managed to set up our cameras under Vancouver’s various rain hideouts and stay dry.
The beauty of the tour is that you bring your own camera, so you get more experience with how to get the most from your own equipment and can replicate great photos in the future to impress your friends.
Suzanne is a lovely guide, on the tour there was every level of photographer from beginner to expert and she was able to accommodate everyone's knowledge with ease and humour while even managing to teach us more than and thing or two. During the two hour adventure that ended in picturesque Gastown the basics of exposure, ISO, aperture, shutter speed, and composition were covered, as well as more advanced party tricks such as writing with lights!
This tour was a great help in learning how to use my new camera and no comparison for endless YouTube videos that I had previously been relying on to learn what it is capable of doing.
Tours are a great way to see the sights of Vancouver, meet new people, improve your camera skills, and capture some great shots. They are offered at various times of day in many of the city's popular stunning
settings: Granville Island, Canada Place, Olympic Village, Coal Harbour, Fisherman's Wharf, Gastown, Vanier Park, and Chinatown.
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